Yet another band that I only paid 
service to.
Possibly a bit late to start now, but, as title please.
Tis never too late, I never got them till I saw them live, and that was 20 years ago. Some are better than others try bend sinister, or perverted by language .
Iām sure others have their favourites.
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No, there is no go to Fall album. Thereās rather a lot of them and they really are different, so all youāll get is peopleās favourites.
Iād also say Bend Sinister and add Live at the Witch Trials, This Nations Saving Grace, The Wierd &Frightening World of the Fall, Extricate, & Frenz Experiment.
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Compilation - too many albums to make much sense of - I recently bought āA-Sides 1978-2016: Deluxe 3CD Boxsetā which is enough Fall for anyone (unless Vacdac liked The Fall, which seems moderately unlikelyā¦). Mind, I see Amazonās pretty much doubled the price now, chiselling bastardsā¦
As it seems to be such a big subject, Iāve gone for this, so I can get a feel for which tracks I like, from which Albums and Iāll go from there 
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The answer is āNo.ā
Live at The Witch Trials
The Wonderful and Frightening Worldā¦
Fall Heads Roll
Reformation Post TLC
ā¦are alright though.
The Fall were uniquely suited to the Peel Session format. If I were recommending somewhere to start I would say try this:
The details are here:
My personal favourites are session 7-11. āAustralians in Europeā from Session 11 was played as tune #4 at my wedding reception to annoy the large shackle dragging group clustered at the bar.
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I saw that. Would have been my first choice but tres mucho cash.
Leave it for a few weeks Mike, and make do with Spotify, itās just the usual posthumous feeding frenzy. That Peel session box set usually goes for about 30-40 quid.
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Sage advice - the A-sides set was Ā£9.95 a couple of days agoā¦ 
Going to do exactly that @Rob998
Will take another look at the Peel box in a few weeks. Iāve got the A- Sides set for now, at Ā£16 feckinā 35 !
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As said, streaming is your friend right now. Scroll down track listings, be tempted by an outrageous song or album title and belly flop yourself right in there.
And be thankful the back catalogue covers decades, because we arent ever remotely going to see their like again.
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Agreed. Likely to be the bulk of tomorrow eveningās listening 
Buy them all, as and when you come across them.
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I could never take on the enormity of The Fall. They seemed a bit too intellectual for me as a teen, even though I really liked Rowche Rumble, Container Drivers etc,etc. The back catalogue grew too huge too quickly for me though and they seemed to demand complete devotion. I am not sure even now that you can be casual in any way about them.
This last week though, I have listened to them almost exclusively and it has been hugely refreshing. Currently I have Hex Enduction Hour as the go-too after listening to several others which have all been good. HEH is utterly compelling.
I bought the whole catalogue for Ā£1.95 when there was a mad deal on amazon.
Then my laptop died,so i have lost the lot.
Fuck.
That aināt good.
Still have the laptop so donāt know if it can be retrieved
Can see exactly what you are saying here.
Prodigious output, with about half of every Album I have played so far being inspired, the other half being meh !
So far the āA - Sidesā compilation that sodders recommended is about right, for me.
Weāll see where it goes.